What are pros and cons on animal rights?

Answer 1

Humans have no biological need to consume the flesh or secretions of other animals. If we can live well without hurting others, why wouldn't we?

Pros: less suffering for animals, humans, and the earth.

Cons: none of any significance.

Answer 2

Pros

• It's good for your health: When you choose a whole-foods, plant-based diet, you will quickly appreciate the many health benefits: you may lower your cholesterol, lose weight, reduce your risk of Heart disease, cancer, or Type 2 Diabetes, increase your energy levels, and reduce constipation. Being a vegan can mean a diet of less fat and fewer chemicals.
• It's good for the earth: The production of a quarter-pound hamburger requires 625 gallons of water, the destruction of 55 square feet of rainforest, and wastes 50 times more fossil fuel than would the production of the same amount of plant-based food. Up to 16 pounds of grain and soybeans are needed to produce one pound of beef. Of the grain grown in the United States, 80% is fed to animals to produce meat, milk, and eggs. That statistic is even more alarming now that we are also using grain to produce more fuel. Out of the huge amount of pesticide used on these grains, a percentage ends up on the food is destined for animals that are used to produce meat, milk, and eggs. The pesticide concentrates in the bodies of the animals. This pesticide is then eaten by people, and fed to their companion animals. The other 99% of pesticide ends up in the air that we and other animals breathe and the water that we and other animals drink. The meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Using animals to produce food is bad for the environment.
• It's good for your fellow humans: Besides costing in terms of water and fuel that much of the world cannot afford, a pound of ground beef will cost $2.88 this year in the United States, where its production is highly subsidized. It provides 1,152 calories, nearly 91 grams of fat, 78 grams of protein, and no fiber. A half pound of lentils mixed with a half pound of brown rice costs about $1.38 in the United States. They provide 1,587 calories, 8 grams of fat, 88 grams of protein, and 77 grams of fiber. Many scientists now believe that in the wake of a changing climate, the switch to a largely plant-based diet is necessary to avoid famine.
• It's good for your bank account: Spending less on groceries is great, but the biggest savings are long-term. By avoiding chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, you could save on such procedures as a $57,439 heart bypass operation, take far fewer sick days, and substantially lower your life insurance premiums.
• It's the right thing to do: Animals on a modern factory farm lead lives of unimaginable suffering and die cruel deaths. Dairy cows spend years in a concrete stall or filthy feed lot before they are slaughtered. Calves and are quickly separated from their mothers, confined in tiny pens, and then killed for veal after only a few months of life. Baby pigs are castrated without anesthesia, taken from their mothers who are confined in tiny crates, and killed at just 7 months. Chickens raised for eggs are crammed in tiny cages and have their beaks clipped to prevent them from hurting each other due to stress from confinement. These animals are killed with a bolt to the head or a knife. Male chicks are thrown into trash bags to suffocate or ground up alive.

Cons

• Eating refined "junk" food, even if it's cruelty-free, can cause deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. This can be fixed by eating the right foods, not just French fries.
• Vegans can sometimes find it hard to find food and have to make a lot of it themselves. Menus may not have vegan options or there may be hidden animal products in foods (such as lactose, casein, and other things). The best thing to do is to make your food yourself. This can take time but is a lot of fun if you do it right.
• Being a vegan can lead to compulsive checking of ingredients, reading of clothing labels and chucking out woolen jumpers, leather watch bands and previously beloved leather shoes. You'll discover animal products in shampoo, soap and tooth paste. But don't worry, you have heaps of cruelty free products to choose from. And at least you know what is in them!
• Vegans need to watch their nutritional sources. All vegetables do not have good sources of vitamin B12, for instance or not at all. This would have to come in either a pill form or from certain bacteria that make a lot of B12 that vegans would have to eat. Sources of iron from plants cannot be properly obtained by vegans if they don't add an additional source of vitamin C to help with absorption. For humans, it is much easier to absorb iron from meat than it is with plants.
• There is no way you're going to avoid consuming hormones no matter if you're on a strictly plant diet or not. Plants also produce hormones just like animals do, so there's no avoiding it if part of the reason you went vegan in the first place was to avoid the hormones found in meat and dairy products.
• Humans are naturally omnivorous creatures, despite "scientific" claims from pro-vegan anti-meat groups otherwise. We may not have sharp teeth and claws or really short small intestines like the real carnivores do, but our stomach is not built like a cow's (with four chambers and a large population of bacteria to help break down the coarse plant material), nor do we have a large cecum like a horse (which also holds a healthy population of fibre-loving bacteria). Our stomach is a simple stomach just like the true omnivores and carnivores have, which is built anatomically for more efficient means of digesting meat. There is a reason why meat takes so long to digest and plants not so much: it's because it can be broken down easier than with plants. With plants, they are harder to digest, there for they pass through faster. It is this reason that careful diet choices must be made in order to live a long and healthy vegan lifestyle.
• Being a part of a minority group basing food choices on values and beliefs --less on health, though this can be argued as being otherwise--there's a huge risk of facing criticism and provocation from other people who do not follow the same diet. A vegan may find an even bigger risk of coming to harm if they believe they must force their views onto non-vegans.
• It should be noted that much of the land that is made for producing vegetables, grains and fruit crops are not without their disadvantages either. Non-renewable resources like oil and gas, massive amounts of fertilizer, and pesticides are still needed to produce such crops, and land which was once natural habitat with flourishing wildlife populations had to be destroyed and water and wildlife diverted in order to grow the very food that is put on your table. Open fields of crops tilled every year are not unexposed to significant wind and water erosion, and often are much more so than permanent pastureland for livestock, some of which native natural grassland is grown and carefully managed by ranchers.
• Veganism is and can only be suitable for those who can afford it. Much of the poor and those who are simply trying to survive cannot survive on plants alone, nor have enough time to do any vegan meal planning. Humans that must survive in the wild can only do so by killing and eating animals. This has been proven by the Inuit and Eskimos of the North, and by Bear Grylls, who is a vegetarian in civilization--definitely not when out in the wild. Tariffs on grain and legumes have those living in the slums with no choice but getting their protein from animals, like those they can hunt for free, if they are able to go hunting, illegally or not.
• Not everyone can be vegan, health-wise. Some people have certain health issues or Allergies that prevent them from becoming a full-fledged vegan, and can only get their protein from eating meat or consuming dairy products.

Answer 3

animal rights have pros and cons.........for example....... Pros Cons 1. Animals are Gods's creation 1. They are carnivores 2. They have as much rights as humans 2. Some are very protective they cause most will protect you!! will hurt others to protect their 3.They are rare and they have lives just own! like us!! Get it.............Got it..............GOOD! Get it.......Got it..........GOOD!!! ---- * Well about 1.3 billion people worldwide depend on animals as a profitable and efficient source of food and income. Poor people or animals? * 800 million people go to bed hungry everyday, grazing animals such as cows are our only way of converting grass fiber into usagable energy. Hungry people or animals? * Millions of people are still deprived of their basic rights and animal rights activists wish to extend those same rights to animals. Rights for people or animals? * Trillions are invested in livestock related infostructur, good luck convincing the rich and poor alike to throw it away. * Some pharmaceuticals can only be produced (or produced in sufficient quantities) with animals. Sick people or animals? * Animals will feel better, but humans will be harmed. * BUt of course the animals have to come before the people right? Cause we humans are bastr@$ worse than animals and we should punbish ourselves against our will.

Answer 4

First of all, "factory farming" is simply a phrase coined by animal rights activists to refer to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFO's. That said, there are both pros and cons to large-scale animal agriculture. Opponents of CAFO's argue that the practice is not good for the environment, it negatively affects people's health, and animals are treated inhumanely in these facilities.

Supporters of CAFO's say that they benefit both the farmers and the consumers economically and these large-scale operations are the best way to provide proper care for animals.

Answer 5

Pros

- Animals are treated more fairly.

- A more moral and just society.

- Animals would not be treated as cruelly

-Animal abusers get longer jail time

Cons

- PETA is a load o f crock. they use animals as a way to push an agenda of human hatred rather than love of animals.

- What are we going to do lock up bear for killing a fish??

- Animals cannot reason, so they cannot be accepted into society where they would roam free and Vote?

- Again PETA is crap

Answer 6

you get fat/thin